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This is possible via a new feature added to recent versions of Microsoft Word that allows users to embed Internet videos inside Word files without having to inject the actual video file inside the document itself.

When I heard the iPhoneX was in trouble, my first thought was, oh crap, what does apple do for an encore if the main performance flopped? What will they call it? They will have to distance themselves from all this bad press. That may not be possible.

In college, from 1982 to 1985, we had to learn COBOL; 3 semesters of it. At the time, it was still the powerhouse business language. We also learned BASIC, PASCAL, VAX Assembler and RPG. Of all of these, the only one I absolutely DON'T want to ever work in is RPG.

So.. come exam time, we had to hand write - on paper with pencil - our COBOL programs with program controlled pagination.

Can you imagine the horror if today's college students were told to hand write an application; no typing it in, no Intellisense, no debugging... just write it out by hand. And that means no insertions of lines for logic you forgot to add, unless of course, you want to rewrite the entire page.

Is that the name of some new drug? You'd need to be higher than a kite to think this was a good idea.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

me thinks this author should have used technology to proof read. Granted spellcheck would not have helped because the spelling isn't wrong, but I'm guessing its not what he meant.

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IT staff who once only focused on systems in the datacenter now focus on systems in the public cloud as well. This means that while they understand how to operate the LAMP stacks in their enterprise datacenters, as well as virtualization, they also understand how to do the same things in a pubic cloud.

Today, machine learning is at the heart of many commercial applications and research projects. By introducing Datalore, we’re extending the JetBrains product family to the machine learning-specific environment in Python.

Installation has finally begun on Jeff Bezos’ 10,000-year clock, a project that the Amazon CEO has invested $42 million in (along with a hollowed-out mountain in Texas that Bezos intends for a Blue Origin spaceport), with the goal of building a mechanical clock that will run for 10 millennia.

"Time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin, Into the future"

I can think of better things he could do with $42MM (and not all of them involve giving it to me)

Person A: What's that?
Person B: A clock that stopped working 9,999 years ago.
Person A: What was it for?
Person B: If we knew, we'd know the answers to the universe.
Person A: Perhaps it was just some big ego trip.
Person B: Probably.

The gov't (any gov't) is too stupid and mired in politics to come up with anything as sophisticated as bitcoin and, in particular, the underlying technologies (though most of those techs existed already, yet another reason why gov't wouldn't be involved, why use existing concepts when we can spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money to re-invent the hammer?)

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.